Illinois House Bill 5338 - School Food Allergy Guidelines — passed the Illinois House and is moving to the Senate.
The bill…
Requires the State Board of Education, in conjunction with the Department of Public Health, to develop and make available to each school board guidelines for the management of students with life-threatening food allergies. Requires each […]

WGN RADIO AM 720 will air a three day Food Allergy Series on Wed. April 30, Thursday May 1, and Friday May 2 at 7:00am, 5:00pm and 11:00pm. Children Memorial’s Dr. Jacqueline Pongracic, Dave, Denise, Bryan and Daniel Bunning as well as many others were interviewed for this piece. We hope many have the chance […]

REMINDER: MOCHA Meeting is Monday, March 10, 7:00 p.m. at Highland Park Hospital, Meeting Room 2 in the basement.
Our speaker is Jodi Laimacher, MC, RD, CDE. Jodi is a professional dietician who has two food allergic sons. She will talk about how to give a child a balanced diet while eliminating the […]

“As CBS 2’s Medical Editor Mary Ann Childers reports, there’s new research that turns some old advice upside down in dealing with this potentially deadly epidemic.”:
Growing Epidemic Of Severe Food Allergies In Kids

From the American Academy of Pediatrics:

This clinical report reviews the nutritional options during pregnancy, lactation, and the first year of life that may affect the development of atopic disease (atopic dermatitis, asthma, food allergy) in early life. It replaces an earlier policy statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics that addressed the use of hypoallergenic […]

Our Monday, January 14th, 2008, meeting at Highland Park Hospital from 7-9 PM will include us showing the Edible Enemies DVD and then having open time for questions. As always, we are lucky to have Christine Szychlinski, Pediatric Nurse Practitioner from Children’s Memorial, at our meetings.

Next Meeting: January 14, 2008.
Stay tuned for more info.

Join us on Monday, Sept. 10, 2007, from 7-9 pm, for our first MOCHA meeting of the season. We will have Dr. Scott Morcott who will discuss integrative medicine and allergies. He is also the father of a son who has severe food allergies and
asthma.
Food Allergy Study: We need your participation in this study! The […]

On June 5, NIH released the Report of the NIH Expert Panel on Food Allergy Research, calling for additional NIH-funded research to uncover the causes of food allergy, and to conduct clinical trials and develop treatments for the life-threatening disease. The Panel, convened in March 2006 at the request of Congress, brought together experts in […]

Next week May 13-19 is Food Allergy Awareness Week. I hope that you are able to do something for your child and /or school to promote the awareness of food allergies. Go to www.foodallergy.org for some idea.
Our next MOCHA meeting is Monday May 14. Our meeting will be the 2nd Annual MOCHA at MOCHA coffeehouse. […]